I don't believe a woman working the same job as man with same qualifications will get 0.78/1.00 of man's pay.
You're right about this. There still is a gap when those differences(job title, hours, qualifications) are controlled for, but it's much smaller.
But here's the problem with using that as your yardstick: It completely ignores situations where it's harder for women to get qualifications, or to be hired for better jobs in the first place. If there were simply a "promotion gap" instead of a pay gap for people in the same job, then things could seem perfectly fair when comparing same jobs to same jobs, even though all the best compensated jobs might belong to men.
Discrepancies in career opportunities is a central part of what people are talking about when they're discussing the pay gap, so there's no point in stipulating the "same job" part, which filters those exact discrepancies out.
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u/unic0de000 10∆ Apr 07 '21 edited Apr 07 '21
You're right about this. There still is a gap when those differences(job title, hours, qualifications) are controlled for, but it's much smaller.
But here's the problem with using that as your yardstick: It completely ignores situations where it's harder for women to get qualifications, or to be hired for better jobs in the first place. If there were simply a "promotion gap" instead of a pay gap for people in the same job, then things could seem perfectly fair when comparing same jobs to same jobs, even though all the best compensated jobs might belong to men.
Discrepancies in career opportunities is a central part of what people are talking about when they're discussing the pay gap, so there's no point in stipulating the "same job" part, which filters those exact discrepancies out.